This H-Prize is a very interesting possibility.

These prizes would accomplish this by drawing attention to the importance of the hydrogen revolution.

In my opinion, that has to change. If we are to grow as a region as a tech-based economy, and a knowledge-based economy, we have to embrace those ideas, or at least be willing to be open-minded or experimental about that. It's not a question of are we ready for this in some cultural sense -- enough people are for this to happen. It's one we have to embrace.

Inglis has a way of phrasing it: If you never get started, it's always 20 years in the future. There's something to that. Is this a high-risk sort of thing? You bet. If fuel cells are delayed for some reason we can't foresee, or if hydrogen storage doesn't work out -- although there are some real interesting concepts coming on -- then it's all for nothing.

We are not behind and we are not ahead.

Everyday holds the possibility of a miracle.